Friday, August 22, 2008

Is Hope Solo preparing for the USA's next match already?? Not quite. The real question is: What happens when you play in a match that kicks off at 9 p.m., play overtime for a total of 120 minutes, partake in a Olympic gold medal celebration, barely get any sleep and then start doing a full day of media? You start cramping. Who knew answering questions about how great it is to win a gold medal and displaying your bling-bling countless times could be so grueling? Well, while this will be the only time Hope will ever take a 90-second time out to stretch at the NBC studios here in Beijing, soon enough her and her teammates will be getting limber when they begin their post-Olympic tour in the U.S. (looking for a good name for the tour people...any ideas?). The Fall tour gets underway with three games against Ireland on Saturday, Sept. 13 in Philadelphia at 8 p.m. ET at Lincoln Financial Field, and Wed., Sept. 17 at 7:30 p.m. ET at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. The last of these three games will be played on Saturday, Sept. 20 at 7 p.m. CT at Toyota Park in Bridgeview, Ill. Ticket information for all the matches is on ussoccer.com. Come be a part of the Olympic gold medal celebration! Fans can follow all the matches live on ussoccer.com’s MatchTracker.

About U.S. Soccer

As the governing body of soccer in all its forms in the United States, U.S. Soccer has helped chart the course for the sport in the USA for more than 90 years. In this time, the Federation’s mission statement has been very simple and very clear: to make soccer, in all its forms, a preeminent sport in the United States and to continue the development of soccer at all recreational and competitive levels.